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 Anagallis Monelli. Italian Pimpernel. 



CAt/} a»i Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Char after. 

 Cor. rotata. Ctf££ circumfciffa l-locularis, polyfperma. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



ANAGALLIS Monelli, foliislanccolatis caule ere&o. JJnH. 



Syjl. Vegct. cd. 14. Murr. p. 196. Ait. Kezv. 

 v. 1. p. 201. 



ANAGALLIS coerulea foliis binis tcmifve ex adverfo nafcen- 

 tibus. Bauh. Pin. 552. 



ANAGALLIS tenuifolia Moimelli. CluJ. afp. alt. 



In Italy and Spain, where this plant grows fpontancouflv, it 

 is an annual, producing feed in abundance ; with us (as far at 

 lead as we have obferved) it produces no feed, but like the 

 Senecio elegans, and fome other annuals, is renewed, and ren- 

 dered perennial by cuttings, which ftrike freely, and by which 

 the plant requires to be renovated once or twice in a feafon ; 

 though defcribed as growing with an upright Rem, it requires 

 to be tied up to a ftick ; and if this be neatly and dexteroufly 

 done, its brilliant azure flowers fpringing from every fide 01 

 the flem, render it a charming ornament for the green-houle 

 or window : it flowers during molt of the year. 



Clusius called it Anagallis Monnclli, the firft knowledge be 

 had of the plant being from his friend JohannesMonnellUS. 



On the fame plant we find the leaves grow two, three, or 

 four together, with flowers correfponding. 



